Joy Connolly

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Joy Connolly
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Connolly in 2022
Born1970
Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater Princeton University (BA)
University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
Organization American Council of Learned Societies
TitlePresident, Distinguished Professor of Classics

Joy Connolly is an American scholar of classics and the president of the American Council of Learned Societies. She was previously interim president [1] and provost [2] of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She was formerly a professor of classics and the dean for humanities at New York University. [3] Connolly's main research interests are Roman republicanism, rhetoric, civic discourse, classical reception, and the role that aesthetic experience plays in the formation of political judgement.

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Early life and education

Connolly was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. She graduated from Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and now is a member of the school's board of trustees. [4]

Connolly received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, 1991. In 1997, she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. [5]

Career

In 1997, she joined the classics faculty as assistant professor of classics at the University of Washington in Seattle. [6] In 2000, she was hired by the classics department at Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she taught both classics and political science classes. [6] In 2004, she joined the faculty of New York University in Manhattan, where she was subsequently promoted to associate professor in 2007 and professor in 2014. [6] In 2016, she was named provost, senior vice president, and distinguished professor of classics at Graduate Center of the City University of New York in Manhattan. [6]

Connolly has published two monographs on Roman rhetoric and politics. The first, The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome, [7] was published in 2007 by Princeton University Press; the second, The Life of Roman Republicanism, [8] also published by Princeton and appeared in 2014.

She has published articles in The Times Literary Supplement , The Nation , [9] The Women's Review of Books, and The New York Times Book Review . [10]

Connolly has served on the board of directors of the Society of Classical Studies [11] and is currently a member of the Advanced Seminar in Classics and Ancient Near Eastern Studies sponsored by Venice International University. [12]

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  1. ↑ "Appointment of Interim President".
  2. ↑ "The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Names Its Next Provost". WIA Report. 7 July 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  3. ↑ "Office of the Dean of Humanities". NYU . Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Board of Trustees - Middlesex School". Middlesex School. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
  5. ↑ "Joy Connolly". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Connolly, Joy (2018). "CV" (PDF).
  7. ↑ Connolly, Joy (5 August 2007). The State of Speech. Princeton University Press. ISBN   9780691123646 . Retrieved 2017-10-10.
  8. ↑ Connolly, Joy (26 October 2014). The Life of Roman Republicanism. Princeton University Press. ISBN   9780691162591 . Retrieved 2017-10-10.
  9. ↑ Connolly, Joy (2009-10-21). "A City Unbottled: Mary Beard's Pompeii". The Nation. ISSN   0027-8378 . Retrieved 2017-10-11.
  10. ↑ Connolly, Joy (2004-12-05). "'Gilgamesh': The Iraq War, 2500 B.C." The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2017-10-11.
  11. ↑ "Board of Directors". Society for Classical Studies. 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
  12. ↑ "Advanced Seminar in the Humanities 2015-2016 - Venice International University". www.univiu.org. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
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